Abstract:Mathematics teaching in a foreign language may lead to discrimination for some learners specifically during trouble-spots that require the construction of shared-understanding. This research compares teacher-learner interaction in two classrooms of Lebanon where mathematics is taught in a foreign language. Eighteen lessons were recorded and transcribed, and utterances of teacher and learners were coded at the levels of: school; session; interlocutor; language use; move and function. Quantitative analysis of la… Show more
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